Personal injury accidents

Published 8:00 pm, Sunday, October 12, 2003

Three injured in crash

A driver and his two passengers, all from Midland, were injured Friday at around 3 a.m. on East Freeland Road when the driver disregarded a road closure sign near South Meridian Road, drove over a pile of dirt and collided with a bridge.

The driver, Dale Duane Fitzgerald, 35, left the scene of the crash, the Midland County Sheriffs office reported. Two others, Kenneth Charles Peterson, 43, and Michael Clark, 49, were transported to MidMichgian Medical Center.

20-year-old injured when vehicle hits tree

A North Muskegon man, 20, was injured early Sunday morning in Midland when the vehicle he was driving struck a tree on Valley Drive near Sugnet Road. The man was arrested for drunken driving and for driving while his license is restricted.

Woman injured in rollover

A 25-year-old Midland woman was injured Sunday at about 10 a.m. when she lost control of her vehicle while driving westbound U.S. 10. near Jefferson Avenue. The driver told police she looked away from the road for a moment, and when she looked back, noticed she has drifted off to the side. When she overcorrected the turn, the 1988 Honda crossed into eastbound lanes. The car rolled several times, came to rest of four wheels and traveled back through the median, returning to westbound traffic. It stopped horizontally across lanes.